About a week old, but still pretty awesome.
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Love the tags
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As another poster pointed out, when you hear about objects below 0 Kelvin, a different definition of temperature than what you're used to is being used. For all temperatures that fall within human intuition (and a great deal of those beyond intuition) as temperature goes up or down, entropy follows suit. This is defining entropy by temperature. We could instead define temperature by entropy. In doing so, as entropy goes up and down, temperature goes up and down. For the most part. At super crazy high, big bang like temperatures, entropy starts to *decrease*. Under the temperature defined by entropy model, this is interpreted as negative kelvin (since that's the only way our math meshes with the temperature defined by entropy model).
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Very interesting. Although, I am not going to pretend to understand how the physics works. I would think that having more atoms on top of the slope would increase the temperature, not inverse it. Well, I am a bio student, not a physics student.
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Edited by Quantum: 1/15/2013 5:22:07 AMIronically, even if this turns out to the true(they could have made a mistake), below 0 Kelvin actually implies that the atoms are the hottest objects in the universe, according to another article.
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Awesome. I will have to dig deeper into this. Thanks for the link.